Guoxiang Wu is Associate Professor in the College of Foreign Languages at Huaqiao University, Quanzhou, China. His research interests include (1) lexical semantics, translation studies and natural language processing; and (2) English for overseas Chinese affairs. He is the translator of Cognition-Based Studies on Chinese Grammar. Yulin Yuan is Professor in the Department of Chinese Language and Literature at Peking University, Beijing, China. His research interests include (1) theoretical linguistics and Chinese linguistics; and (2) computational linguistics and Chinese information processing. He is the author of Cognition-Based Studies on Chinese Grammar.

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• List of illustrationsPrefaceAbbreviationsIntroduction: From Lexis to Lexical Ontological Semantics1 The Semantic Network and Ontological Lexicology2 A Qualia-Structure Descriptive System for Nouns3 An Argument-Structure Descriptive System for Predicates4 The QS-AS Coupling Mechanism5 A Corpus-Based Lexicon-Construction Interactive Model6 Automatic Restoration of Implicit Predicates7 Qualia Structure and Translated Text Analysis8 ConclusionReferencesIndex